- “It’s the system, stupid,” write Sharpton and Klein, quoting (among others) Darling-Hammond and Ravitch.
- A Bronx empowerment zone principal makes a plea for retaining mayoral control.
- Sherman Dorn imagines Joel Klein as “Dungeonmaster.” Someone explain this, please.
- Dan Brown says “The Class,” that French movie, is startlingly hollow.
- Debbie Meier thinks that differences in curriculum can be “a blessing, not a curse.”
- Arne Duncan is appointing a former union official to do teacher outreach.
- Rhode Island’s getting a new zone of schools that will be free from regular district rules.
- Colorado prints out school accountability reports for parents, but that might end.
- The Obama administration is clarifying how it wants to change No Child Left Behind.
- A report finds that states don’t do enough oversight of child care centers.
- What’s the science test of the future? It goes into more depth, for one thing.